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For nearly a decade, we have been striving to expand the understanding of media arts, performance and technology, seeking a provocative synthesis of video, film, audio and sculptural objects to create multi-media installations as well as single-channel pieces.
Our work draws inspiration from various disciplines such as avant-garde theater and dance, music, poetry, and cinema and has long been informed by a fascination with ritual, transformation and the search for beauty and mystery in daily existence. Throughout our creative lives, we have continually sought an open, cross pollination of genres, media and styles, which inform, challenge and influence each other, pushing the work into new and unforeseen directions. We are interested in embracing uncertainty and ambiguity, consciously making work with a visual and aural complexity that does not easily fall into established categories or genres. We use video and sound as fine art mediums, often layering and manipulating images into painterly abstraction, controlling details of color, and the flow of motion and speed. Although we actively embrace new technologies, we continuously seek a balance between an aesthetically compelling work, and one that resonates emotionally.
As our work has progressed, we have repeatedly been drawn to the multiple-channel format as it affords us freedom to create multifaceted narratives; offering simultaneous realities and intricate visual and aural juxtapositions. Working across multiple channels allows us to construct an echo in time, space and reality; to realize similarities, alternatives, and contradictions all at once. Images repeat, synchronize and then just as easily fall apart and disperse, striking a balance between separation and convergence, simplicity and complexity.
We work intuitively, allowing a piece to guide us as it develops, revealing itself through the creative process. For every new project, we search for a distinct visual and aural language. This is largely achieved through experimentation in the editing stage, permitting ourselves ample time to allow the material to come together organically.
Our projects consider intersections between ritual, ceremony, meditation and performance, by combining various media to create different layers of reality, collapsing boundaries between fact and fantasy, between location and time. Ultimately, we strive to make work that is aesthetically driven, with an intrinsic theatricality, engaging loose, fragmented narratives; yet never so bound to realism as to preclude a sudden eruption of the supernatural.
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